New Delhi, March 17 -- On July 15, 2020, the Twitter accounts of many prominent personalities displayed a singular message. "Give me your bitcoin and I will double it". People even fell for the scam and collectively lost more than $100,000 in the cryptocurrency. In a recent development, the 17-year-old hacker has pleaded guilty to his cyber crime. He will spend three years in jail, and another three on probation.

Twitter has seen these "double your money" scams many times over the years. It even took to identify some major cryptocurrency accounts and secure them. Further, the social-media giant banned any account impersonating a verified account. But the large scale of this attack shook the entire world. Shortly after the hack, Clark was...